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Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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Isn't the LaTeX stylesheet for your thesis usually dictated by your university? It was for me at least..

Me too. In the comp sci department, at least, one of the professors made a compliant style a long time ago and it continues to get passed around. I'm defending on Thursday and so far there haven't been any real complaints other than a requirement that my figure captions be at the top of the figure instead of the bottom. Not a biggie.

Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

#72

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Where I did mine, they required submissions in strict word formatting.

What's going to happen whem Word is dead is 20 years and they have all these useless files?

There's a very good chance that they'll end up being transformed into PDFs before being released, and will also end up in print.

Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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post #11

A quick look on Github told me you are not using the memoir package for this. Could the author please elaborate why it is not using memoir?

Because he's using scrreprt from KOMAscript as base class.

Ah, thanks.

Re: Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style for thesis documents

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At the University of Chicago, the thesis office didn't give any indication that they'd ever heard of LaTeX. But they did hand us a long list of formatting requirements (precise margins, contents format, lots of other details) and it was clear that any deviation from those would result in your thesis being handed right back to you. Fortunately, there was a LaTeX style file that had been handed around the physics depar…

University of Chicago can't afford secretaries? What do they put academics through this crap? This is part of why PhD students drop out and become dotcom millionaires instead of academics.

Nobody ever explains to grad students that they can ask the secretaries to do this stuff. I didn't figure it out until I got a tenure-track job.
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